Republican intervention - item that’s edited out? (9)
I believe the answer is:
redaction
'edited out?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'republican intervention item' is the wordplay.
'republican' becomes 'red' (traditional colour for US republican party).
'intervention item' becomes 'action' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'red'+'action'='REDACTION'
'that's' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for redaction that I've seen before include "writing" , "Editing a work" , "Amended written account" , "that's needed if text is poor" , "process of censorship" .)